The Cryonics people have somehow escaped from Aristotelian logic and don't accept that everybody is mortal. They would re-formulate the syllogism Everybody has been mortal until now. We may be mortal or then again maybe we aren't if the Cryonic Gamble works out. There are some people who don't think they have to die and they are growing in numbers all over the world. The idea started in 1964 and there are more and more people who believe it and it's becoming more and more practical. If you were to put a thousand dollars in a bank and virtually anybody could get their hands on a thousand dollars if they were really determined. I don't care how many
Guest speaker: Robert Anton Wilson
PROGRAM NOTES:
Date this lecture was recorded: February 1982
[NOTE: All quotations are by Robert Anton Wilson.]
"The belief in certitude, I suspect, is a primate habit."
"One thing I want to make absolutely clear is that almost all pessimism results from watching what the government is doing. . . . because the government is the last place that important change is registered. And so if you're looking at the government you're looking at the past."
"Certitude only belongs to those people who own just one encyclopedia."
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